Demolition started Monday at the White House’s East Wing to make way for Trump’s planned $250 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom, as the Administration begins to put to use the millions of dollars o...

The controversial public building is ugly and intimidating, architectural vainglory battening on presidential ego, inappropriate to its setting, unmoored from memory and tradition.

“So the People’s House is basically being sold to the highest bidder. It is corruption at its core,” said former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on the talk show “ The View .”